Example sentences of "he can [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 2 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 3 | He can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born , can he ? |
| 4 | Geoff Addy , of the Old Dun Cow , says he can not afford a new 20-year lease which will put his rent and rates up to £2,000 a week . |
| 5 | A fully paid-up member of the Donkey Breeding Society , he regrets that he can not have a stable or two in his large and well-kept garden . |
| 6 | He can not interfere directly with the proceedings of the Common Law Courts ; he can not issue a new writ which will have much chance of being held good by those courts . |
| 7 | If he can not persuade a former employer to take the patient back , he may be able to find suitable alternative work through his knowledge of other companies . |
| 8 | But a historian of modern transport can go to an enormous mass of recorded and photographed information when he can not find a surviving model of an early bombing aeroplane ; the historian of , say , medieval navies has infinitely smaller resources . |